Facile in a Sentence

Examples of facile in a sentence

Facile is a pretty challenging word, but we're here to help you better understand it...with EXAMPLES!

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Below you will find the definition of facile, followed by 38 sample sentences (from real sources), gradually increasing in length.

This is the kind of facile conclusion and faulty logic that, unfortunately, drives too much of the political narrative, just as it did following gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia. (source)

The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that _Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana_, which closeth the volume of his (source)

Something different from this SF great's facile pen: An historical novel about Toulouse-Lautrec and the creation of his famous Moulin Rouge poster, seen from the point of view of a waif sheltered by the troubled artist. (source)

It's that kind of facile worldview that allows Pat Buchanan to ridicule Sotomayor as "Miss Affirmative Action, 2009"; Sotomayor's meteoric rise to the top, Buchanan fatuously insists, was "all because she was a Hispanic woman." (source)

The reproach of that, together with the kind of facile apologies those who had no share in the deed may have made for it, as they went about quietly on their own affairs that day, seems to come very close to me, as I think upon it. (source)

And maybe because of them, my main impression of him has been his facility which I say, mostly, without the negative connotation of "facile": he could take almost anything in, at least as a reader, and spin it out into golden, tactile phrases. (source)

And it is dangerous when the media gives her the same "voice" or treatment as serious politicians - liberal or conservative - because this suggests to people that maybe her intellectually dull, limited and facile views should be given some creedence. (source)

It's disheartening to see this kind of facile cynicism become the default moral position of so many critics (the film also won the Boston and Washington, DC critics awards), particularly in a year when there is so much complex, considered cynicism readily available: (source)

The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana, which closeth the volume of his "Opuscula Academica," to observe (we translate from memory) that, (source)

Arrived in Cincinnati, where he got employment in the Western Union commercial telegraph department at a wage of $60 per month, Edison made the acquaintance of Milton F. Adams, already referred to as facile princeps the typical telegrapher in all his more sociable and brilliant aspects. (source)

This is kind of facile (and not a little bit peurile), but I used to select the wider blades of grass that I could find, and pinch them between the balls of my hands (paddy part at the bottom of the thumb) and the tips of my thumbs, and when you blow through the resulting gap with the grass blade, it made a very obnoxious, honky kind of sound, in the same general sonic family as listening to Mr. Punch speak through the swazzle. (source)

Sentence Information

The average Flesch reading-ease score of the 38 example sentences provided below is 46.0, which suggests that "facile" is a difficult word that tends to be used by individuals of higher education, and is likely found in more advanced literature or in academia.

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